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A review by banrions
Pas de deux by E.J. Noyes
4.0
i am not a horse girl.
frankly, i'm not an animal person, on the whole. i like them! i just have no real desire to have them around me all the time or live with them/i am afraid of some of them. that said, despite having a healthy respect/fear of horses, i would hang out (briefly) with dewy, the very charming cat loving, hoof painting, horse at the center of this tale.
i am also not a sports girl.
that said, the olympics is my single exception to that, and i found the whole horse dressage (sp?) competition stuff much more interesting than i thought i would. but the real draw of this story are the main characters, caitlyn and addie. i loved them both a lot, and i really enjoyed their dynamic together. i've been on a good streak of e.j. noyes books lately and i'm delighted by it. the first two or three that i read i enjoyed but didn't love, but the last two i've really had fun (and way too many feelings) with and i'm so happy to finally get on the e.j. noyes love bandwagon. i think part of my earlier disconnect with her books have been the single pov, first person narration. that is... not my preference when it comes to romance stories--i much prefer to get into the pov of all parties involved in the romance. there are definitely times where it works really well (alone, for instance, was perfect like that) but usually it's not my fav way to tell a romance tale. i LOVED that this had dual povs of both caitlyn and addie, because it really helped me fall in love with both of them.
i thought the pacing of this was great. abby craden was nearly perfection as always (accents aren't perhaps her strong suit, but i still loved it). i love me a longer book. and it was a great one to listen to while having hardly any energy and recovering from a cold. it was also a lovely, pretty low angst refresher after the intensity of emotions that blasting through the seven husbands of evelyn hugo in basically a day gave me before this.
frankly, i'm not an animal person, on the whole. i like them! i just have no real desire to have them around me all the time or live with them/i am afraid of some of them. that said, despite having a healthy respect/fear of horses, i would hang out (briefly) with dewy, the very charming cat loving, hoof painting, horse at the center of this tale.
i am also not a sports girl.
that said, the olympics is my single exception to that, and i found the whole horse dressage (sp?) competition stuff much more interesting than i thought i would. but the real draw of this story are the main characters, caitlyn and addie. i loved them both a lot, and i really enjoyed their dynamic together. i've been on a good streak of e.j. noyes books lately and i'm delighted by it. the first two or three that i read i enjoyed but didn't love, but the last two i've really had fun (and way too many feelings) with and i'm so happy to finally get on the e.j. noyes love bandwagon. i think part of my earlier disconnect with her books have been the single pov, first person narration. that is... not my preference when it comes to romance stories--i much prefer to get into the pov of all parties involved in the romance. there are definitely times where it works really well (alone, for instance, was perfect like that) but usually it's not my fav way to tell a romance tale. i LOVED that this had dual povs of both caitlyn and addie, because it really helped me fall in love with both of them.
i thought the pacing of this was great. abby craden was nearly perfection as always (accents aren't perhaps her strong suit, but i still loved it). i love me a longer book. and it was a great one to listen to while having hardly any energy and recovering from a cold. it was also a lovely, pretty low angst refresher after the intensity of emotions that blasting through the seven husbands of evelyn hugo in basically a day gave me before this.